Hector Abad Faciolince

Héctor Abad Faciolince, born in 1958 in Medellín, Colombia, is a Colombian writer. He studied medicine, philosophy and journalism, and continued his education in Italy after being temporarily expelled from university. In 1987, his father was murdered; nearly two decades later, Abad Faciolince explored the loss in his autobiographically inflected novel *Oblivion*. The book was adapted for film by Fernando Trueba, whose film received the 2021 Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film. In 2008, Abad Faciolince was a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Residence programme in Berlin.